like
/laɪ̯k/ noun C2- Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort. · There were bowls full of sweets, chocolates and the like.· This is something the likes of which I've never seen before, and we should compare like with like instead.
- The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side. · to play the like
Plural likes
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Thus he came along, supporting himself on a curiously carved stick, his aged countenance lit up with happiness, looking for all the world like one of the aged dandies of 1796, parading the newly opened gardens of the Luxembourg and Tuileries.
AN ARAB Camel-driver, after completing the loading of his Camel, asked him which he would like best, to go up hill or down.
Not like the wild young men now-a-days, who think of nothing but themselves.
To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle away like other young men.”
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